January. Bloody Hell! Am I glad to get that out of the way. Just vicious little Feb, then hopefully some sort of spring which isn’t a repeat of spring 2018. Happy Flu Year So far this year has seen back to back viruses and two lots of time off work sick. I plodded on for … More Cold Light of Day
Here is the first post I have done in 2019. The random world of Jillslawit seems to be a busy place right now, and as I am back at work after the Christmas holidays, I am needed more next week…so time races on. I have decided to share the last photos I took in 2018, … More Last and First
We stopped by Yateholme Reservoir on the same summer day that we had a squint at Brownhill, Ramsden and Riding Wood further down the Holme Valley outside Holmfirth. near Huddersfield. Instead of producing poorly researched (and boring) stats, I will just say that we wanted to see how this reservoir stood up at the time … More Droughtwatch Res of the Week – Yateholme
Due to a heatwave earlier in the summer, and very insignificant rainfall, a lot of our local reservoirs are somewhat low down. It’s not really an encouraging sight to see, but the shrinking water level has allowed for a different view not normally seen, and in some places things have been uncovered and rediscovered. I … More Droughtwatch Reservoir of the Week -Low Down Digley
I have been out of work for a year now, and relied on very little money coming into my household. I’ve applied for vacancy after vacancy often hearing nothing at all, and attended heaps of interviews. Each rejection was another kick in the gut, another bit of my dwindling self-esteem wrung out and swilled away. … More More pre-interview images
West Yorkshire has had an exceptional summer. Sometimes ‘down south’ in the UK has decent spells of summer weather and temperatures which outdo its northern half. However 2018 has been pretty damn good for Britain, and I aren’t complaining, even though June saw weeks of soaring temperatures into July. Being of a certain age, I … More Where’s All the Water Gone?
At the end of June, when we’d been back from Spain a day, and I’d unpacked, washed and repacked, we boarded a train in Slaithwaite and headed up to Cumbria to visit family sandwiched neatly between the Eden Valley and the Lake District. Despite coming up here quite a bit in recent years, we’d never … More Jill’s Jaunts Cumbria – Saddle Up
As for a bit of respite from my recent abundance of garden posts, here is peaceful picture of a chap quietly fishing in Slawit reservoir, and having some respite of his own. As we crept past, my little granddaughter Lily wondered rather loudly if he had actually caught anything. Ssssh! I said.
Here are more black and white images from my little 4 day jaunt to Castleton in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Jill’s next jaunt is soon and will be posting during July. We venture into the unknown territory of Spain’s Costa Brava in a week’s time, then onward for a few days in my favourite English county … More Jill’s Jaunts – Final Castleton monochromes
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